On 2014-07-30 3:34 AM, scott wrote:
 >> This picture is from a 2048 game I wrote in VisualWorks Smalltalk using
 >> POVRay to render the board and all the tiles.  POVRay rendered PNG files
 >> of the board and all tiles from 2 to 8196
 >
 > What happens when you merge two 8192 tiles then?

Right now, the new square turns black .  I suppose I should fix that but 
it's not a big priority for me.

 >
 >> The auto-play feature achieves the 2048 tile in about 50% of the games
 >> it plays and occasionally (once or twice every ten runs) achieves 4096.
 >>   I've never seen it get an 8192 tile.
 >>
 >> I wrote this game as my entry in the Cincom Smalltalk 2048 contest but I
 >> plan to make a series of videos about how I wrote the game and
 >> rendered it.
 >
 > I never considered writing an AI player for 2048, but it sounds fun.
 >
 > What is the rule/algorithm for adding the new tile after each move? Is
 > it just placed in a random empty cell? On my version (Android) most
 > times I got a 2 but sometimes it gave me a 4.
 >

The game just picks a random empty cell and randomly puts a 2 or 4 there.

David

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